[West Ender]

As a former dog owner, for nearly all my life, I am the first to agree that dog mess is disgusting, anti-social and dangerous. My dearly loved 16 year old dog, who we had to say goodbye to last month, was a bit incontinent in the last year of her life and would sometimes "do it" on the trot as we walked. Pooper-scooper bags are cheap and fit nicely into a pocket. It was no great effort to clean up after her and I would no more have left her pooh on the pavement, or grass, than I would throw out human "waste". People who do should, in my opinion, be heavily fined.

I have a cat, too, I've also had cats all my life. It's not so easy to follow a cat around with a pooper-scooper but they can be trained, as kittens, to use a litter-tray. You can't blame a cat that has never had that training for finding its own lavatory and, yes, cat pooh is revolting and equally dangerous.

Attack the owner, not the animal.